Toby Kidd is a multidisciplinary artist interested in publics, and dialogue, and a graduate of the Royal College of Art Contemporary Arts Practice programme, where he specialised in the Public Sphere. His practice uses sound, sculpture, text, video, fiction, and performative events with the belief that art is an integral part of shaping the world.
He has shown/performed in countries all over the world including USA, Russia, Croatia, Italy, UK.
He is always interested in hearing about new projects and collaborations, please reach out and say hello.
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TUDDA & THE REDWEED IMAGINARIUM
2022
Public Art; Print; Sound;
Tudda & The Redweed Imaginarium is an ‘audio guide sculpture’, describing an impossible sculptural interruption into Teddington Broad Street.
Using voice, field recording, and sound, this piece is a narrated description of a sculptural installation that fills the whole street. The audio is accompanied by a text banner designed using digital drawing and text on Photoshop.
The voices in the sculpture offer opposing arguments on a public artwork which is growing like a species of invasive plant.
The artwork is designed to be able to be placed in different locations and experienced through triggering of augmented reality inside a phone box, in an empty shop, and on a bench.
This work was particularly interested in working with concepts of accessibility in public sculpture and questioing how we approach this by working directly with the audio guide.
This artwork was developed in association the architecture firm Metropolitan Workshop in Farringdon London.
“This they chant, is a Teddington plant
This seed they say, does not need to stay”
Using voice, field recording, and sound, this piece is a narrated description of a sculptural installation that fills the whole street. The audio is accompanied by a text banner designed using digital drawing and text on Photoshop.
The voices in the sculpture offer opposing arguments on a public artwork which is growing like a species of invasive plant.
The artwork is designed to be able to be placed in different locations and experienced through triggering of augmented reality inside a phone box, in an empty shop, and on a bench.
This work was particularly interested in working with concepts of accessibility in public sculpture and questioing how we approach this by working directly with the audio guide.
This artwork was developed in association the architecture firm Metropolitan Workshop in Farringdon London.